Background
Temperature and stream production (e.g. food) are extremely influential to the behavior, growth, and survival of fishes. Temperature and invertebrates are also very synthetic responses to stream geomorphology, hydrology, and nearside stream vegetation. As such, they can be heavily influenced by land use and stream restoration, and can be impaired by anthropogenic impacts that we may be able to mitigate. Because of their importance, we first describe some of the basic drivers of these two variables and then review models to extrapolate this information across large spatial scales.
Resources
Lectures
Temperature Intro (Part 1)
Heat Transfer (Part 2)
Mass Transfer (Part 3)
Temperature Models (Part 4)
Temperature Model continued (Part 5)
Production intro (Part 6)
Gross Primary Production model (Part 7)
Reading
- Justice C, White SM, McCullough DA, Graves DS, Blanchard MR. 2017. Can stream and riparian restoration offset climate change impacts to salmon populations? Journal of Environmental Management 188 : 212–227. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.12.005.
- Poole GC, Berman CH. 2001. An Ecological Perspective on In-Stream Temperature: Natural Heat Dynamics and Mechanisms of Human-Caused Thermal Degradation. Environmental Management 27 : 787–802. DOI: 10.1007/s002670010188.
- Saunders, W. C., N. Bouwes, P. McHugh, and C. E. Jordan. 2018. A network model for primary production highlights linkages between salmonid populations and autochthonous resources. Ecosphere 9:e02131. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2131.